Garza v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 14 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2014
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. Safley · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Brame v. United States · Myers v. Morris · Watson v. Moss
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the District Court noted, federal prison regulations provide treatment for “hunger strikers,” but do not address those who are fasting for religious purposes. Garza did not state how labeling him as a hunger striker harmed him. Nor did Garza contend he was force-fed at [the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners]. In any event, preservation of prisoners’ health is certainly a legitimate objective, and prison officials may take reasonable steps to accomplish this goal. Garza’s rights under the Constitution were not violated by the threat of receiving involuntary nourishment. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Soliman
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.